Eastman Chemical Company

Venkata Bharat Ram Boppana

Charles Edwan Sumner, Jr

Scott Donald Barnicki

Robert Thomas Hembre

David William Norman

Shane Kipley Kirk

Gerald Charles Tustin

Zhufang Liu

Kenneth Wayne Hampton, Jr

Jonathan Michael Penney

Christopher Harlan Burk

Andrew James Vetter

Joseph Alexander Deloach

Melissa Page Steffey

Melissa Dawn Page

Travis Matthew Gott

Guy Ralph Steinmetz

A novel minimum boiling binary azeotrope of n-undecane and n-butyl-3-hydroxybutyrate is shown to have utility as a solvent for degreasing of both nonpolar and polar contaminants. The components of the azeotrope are stable against degradation and the composition is largely invariant with pressure, yielding a unique solvent that can be used in cold cleaning and in vapor degreasing at elevated temperatures and over a wide range of pressures.

Minimum boiling azeotrope of n-butyl-3-hydroxybutyrate and n-undecane and application of the azeotrope to solvent cleaning

The invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising a mixed oxide of vanadium, titanium, and phosphorus. The titanium component is derived from a water-soluble, redox-active organo-titanium compound. The catalyst composition is highly effective at facilitating the vapor-phase condensation of formaldehyde with acetic acid to generate acrylic acid, particularly using an industrially relevant aqueous liquid feed. Additionally, the catalyst composition is catalytically active towards the formation of acrylic acid from methylene diacetate and methacrylic acid from methylene dipropionate; both reactions are carried out with high space time yields.

Process for preparing V-Ti-P catalysts for synthesis of 2,3-unsaturated carboxylic acids

This invention relates to hydrogenation processes for making cyclohexane compounds. More specifically, this invention relates to hydrogenation processes in the presence of tertiary amide solvent compounds, as well as compositions that can result from such processes. The invention thus provides processes for making cyclohexanecarboxylic acid compounds and processes for making hydroxymethylcyclohexane compounds.

Processes for making cyclohexane compounds

Disclosed is a plasticizer comprising xylylene glycol di-2-ethylhexanoate. The plasticizer can comprise xylylene glycol di-2ethylhexanoate and a second plasticizer. Also disclosed is a plastisol comprising a PVC resin dispersed in the liquid phase and a plasticizer comprising xylylene glycol di-2-ethylhexanoate and a second plasticizer. Additionally disclosed, an article can comprise the fused plastisol.

Low-volatility plasticizer blends

This invention relates to hydrogenation processes for making hydroxymethylbenzoic acid compounds. More specifically, this invention relates to hydrogenation processes in the presence of tertiary amide solvent compounds, as well as compositions that can result from such processes. The invention thus provides processes for making hydroxymethylbenzoic acid compounds.

Processes for making hydroxymethylbenzoic acid compounds

Processes are provided for contacting at least one Calcohol equivalent having n carbon atoms and at least one Calcohol equivalent having (n+1) carbon atoms with a Guerbet catalyst to form a product composition comprising a product compound having the structure: 

Conversion of alcohols to longer chain aldehydes or alcohols

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Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Venkata Bharat Ram Boppana